Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misery of slanting rain and snow buffeted the helicopter ride from Andrews Air Force Base to the White House lawn. But beneath the north portico, President Kennedy warmed his visitor with a welcome that went far beyond diplomatic platitudes. "You represent all that we admire in a political leader," said Kennedy to Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. "Your liberal leadership of your country, your persistent determination to make a better life for your people, your long fight for democratic leadership . . . all these have made you, for us, a symbol of what we wish for our own country...
Running through mixed rain and snow, freshman ace Walt Hewlett covered 26 miles in 2 hours and 53 minutes to finish eighth in New York's annual Cherry Tree Marathon on Sunday. Hewlett was the Ivy League's freshman Big Three Champion in cross country competition last fall...
Mona was wending her enigmatic way from Washington, via air-conditioned van, to Manhattan, where she went on view for 3½ weeks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Despite rain, slush and bone-cracking cold, a crowd of 23,872 queued up in three-block-long lines on the first day to make frostbitten obeisance before the lady with the greenish face in her bulletproof, heat-and-humidity-controlled shrine...
...substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks as if it cost at least 39,000 bubble-gum wrappers) at a passing cloud. He wants to make rain but he only breaks windows-20,000 windows...
Perhaps the high point of the fall season was the Crimson victory in the Ivy League championship, held on the Charles in October. Heavy rain and winds of 30 knots swept the regatta an high point skipper Mike Horn and Captain Carter Ford led the Crimson to a 16 point triumph over second-place Cornell...